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Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of…
Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's letter to the King and all the bishops of Ireland's protestation to the Parliament to the same purpose : with an answer to the Roman-Catholics reasons for indulgence : also the excellent reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against indulgence, with historical observations thereupon.Fair-warning, or, XXV reasons against toleration and indulgence of popery with the Arch-bishop of Canterbury's letter to the King and all the bishops of Irelands protestation to the Parliament to the same purpose : with an answer to the Roman-Catholicks reasons for indulgence : also the excellent reasons of the Honourable House of Commons against indulgence, with historical observations thereupon.
London: printed for S.U.N.T.F.S., 1663
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Twenty five Reasons Against Toleration of Popery › Reason 16: Reason 16.
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Reason 16.
A way that engageth poor souls in certain perjury, contradiction, and impossibility, is not tolerable. &c. The Papists Can you, O ye tender hearted Princes see poor souls perplexed thus with impossibilities: amazed with contradictions and plunged in perjury: and consider that posterity will write that these things were done in your days: and that the poor souls will complain at the last day. Alas woe is us, we were undone under your government. O most excellent Governors, we hope better things of you.
A way that engageth poor souls in certain perjury, contradiction, and impossibility, is not tollerable. &c. The Papists Can you, O ye tender hearted Princes see poor souls perplexed thus with impossibilities: amazed with contradictions and plunged in perjury: and consider that posterity will write that these things were done in your days: and that the poor souls will complain at the last day. Alas woe is us, we were undone under your government. O most excellent Governours, we hope better things of you.
Reason 17.
A Party whose business it is to puzzle people in their Religion, and debauch them in their lives is not to be tolerated. The Papists are such, &c. they puzzle us with divisions, that we know not what to do but return to Popery, where though we do err,, yet they bear us in hand that we cannot err. They debauch poor souls with Licentiousness, that when they are troubled in conscience, and upon their death-bed, know not how to be saved: they may in despair throw themselves into Popery for that pardon and indulgence which no other Religion can afford them. In vain do you set up an Ecclesiastical government, if you endure another way to take in those whom your Discipline cast out, when we have taught the people faithfully, admonished them sincerely, reproved them severely, censured them justly, and excommunicated them solemnly, They in Contempt of you and us, can turn Papists and laugh at us: for Popery and Schism is the sin and channel that receives the excrements and filth of our Church: when we tell men of their sins they run to the Papists, and they tell them they are venial: when we restrain men they run to them of the separation, and there are at liberty to do what they please: it is in vain to make Laws, if a party of dissenters be tolerated, with whom loose men may find. Refuge against all Laws,